That’s a tricky business—combining art and technology—one which often encounters resistance from skeptics, who, depending on their biases, ask questions such as “It may be art, but is it science?” or “It may be science, but is it art?” At the same time, the choice to make art using computational media is a choice to work with stuff everyone recognizes and understands. “It’s not the media of an arcane community of expertise, like ceramics or painting,” comments Natalie Jeremijenko, a professor at the University of Southern California, San Diego and one of the field’s most respected practitioners. “Basically, it’s the media of everyday life.” Inasmuch, artists working with these media have opted to work on a front of social change. That’s a choice artists have made for centuries, which is why the naysayers who complain because they can’t categorize the work are so exasperating. “Have they heard of Leonardo?” Jeremijenko wonders.